Rope Quotes

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!